ELDER RESEARCH, INC.
Hierarchical graph search planning algorithm for multi-domain tactical and strategic operations under uncertainty
- Sector
- Defense
- Headquarters
- CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
- Latest Form D
- $3M, Oct 2023
- Total capital
- $84.7M
- Federal grants
- $2.3M
- 7 awards · 2019–2024
- 3.5× sector median 2 awards
- Private capital raised
- $3M
- 1 Form D · last Oct 2023
- 36 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- $79.4M
- 73 awards · Treasury, Social Security Ad, Defense
- Rank in Defense#103 of 1442
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal contractHomeland Security · This Award Provides State And Local Tactical Communications (taccom) Surge Support Through Specialized It Systems Personnel To Enhance Communications, Interoperability, And Situational Awareness For Supporting Law Enforcement Missions.$6.1M
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Data Scientist Support Services For The Advanced Trade Analytics Platform.$11.5M
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Data Science Services To Support The Office Of Trade's (ot) Large Language Model (llm) Vision AI Project.$1.7M
- Federal contractCouncil of the Ins · Bpa Call Is For Cigie To Procure It Professional Services From Elder Research, Inc. Base Year 09/01/25-10/31/25. Bpa Call Against Cigie Award #9531BL25A0038.$1.9M
- Federal contractTreasury · TRACS0002197 - Identity Theft Detection$2.9M
- Federal contractSecurities and Exc · Analytical Methods And Support$6M
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Dss Ops Data Analysis Award$1.3M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$3M
Show 72 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Office Of Trade Data Scientist Support Services$6.7M
- Federal contractNASA · FY24 STTR Phase 1 - Model-driven Deep Graph Learning For Risk-aware Anomaly Response$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · FY24 STTR Phase 1 - Model-driven Deep Graph Learning For Risk-aware Anomaly Response$150K
- Federal contractInterior · Eeoc Oig-evaluation Of Reliability Of Agency Records Center Data And Data Warehouse$168K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Phase II STTR - Uncertainty Quantification Of Representations Of Unknown Dynamic Systems Through Universal Differential Equations$847K
- Federal contractNASA · Phase II STTR - Uncertainty Quantification Of Representations Of Unknown Dynamic Systems Through Universal Differential Equations$847K
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Data Scientist Support Services For The Advanced Analytics Trade Platform.$4.2M
- Federal contractLabor · Program Integrity Analytic (pia) Services$953K
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Data Scientist Support$3.1M
- Federal contractInterior · Financial Analysis And Analytics Services For Council Of The Inspectors General On Integrity And Efficiency (cigie) Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (prac)$6.3M
- Federal contractTreasury · Individual Graph Support$284K
- Federal contractHomeland Security · The Purpose Of This Procurement Is For Advanced Data Analyst And Data Architecture And Engineering Support To Acquire, Enhance, And Provide High Quality, Reliable, And Secure Data Analytics And Architecture Engineering In Support Of Audits, Inspect$2.6M
- Federal contractNASA · EO14042 STTR Phase 1 Uncertainty Quantification Of Representations Of Unknown Dynamic Systems Through Universal Differential Equations$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Cross-Domain Strategic Planning with Adaptation for Risk Uncertainty and Opportunistic Targeting$156K
- Federal contractDefense · Novel Machine Learning Based Approaches$149K
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Call Order Off Bpa Contract$1.8M
- Federal contractDefense · Seaport Nxg Minimum Obligation Task Order$500
- Federal contractHomeland Security · Data Scientists Support Services$2.3M
- Federal contractAgriculture · Data Scientist Professional Services$497K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · RAMBO: Rapid Additive Manufacturing Build Outcomes$125K
- Federal contractHealth and Human S · Hhs Reinvent Grants Management 2020$150K
- Federal contractAgriculture · Data Scientist Professional Services$79K
- Federal contractHealth and Human S · Hhs Reinvent Grants Management$189K
- Federal contractLabor · Order Issued To Provide Program Integrity Analytic (pia) Services To Support The Department Of Labor (dol) Office Of Workers Compensation Programs (owcp).$2.3M
- Federal contractSecurities and Exc · Igf: :ot: :igf For Other Functions Qrads Channel 5 Ml-ai$5.3M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need$50K
- Federal contractAgriculture · Data Scientist Professional Services$363K
- Federal grantHealth and Human S · Phase I · ALZ-Stage: Artificial intelligence driven technology with adaptive suite of personalized tests to detect and determine progressive stage of Alzheimers disease$225K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Physics-Based Modeling Tools for Life Prediction and Durability Assessment of Advanced Materials$750K
- Federal contractLabor · Maintenance Renewal$13K
- Federal contractLabor · Exercise Final Option Year Of Radr Bpa (DOL-OIG-14-A-0006).$13K
- Federal contractAgriculture · Data Scientist Analytics Assessment$55K
- Federal contractAgriculture · Data Scientist Professional Services$185K
- Federal contractTreasury · Radr License Renewal And O&m Support For Graph Visualization Capabilities$49K
- Federal contractLabor · Radr Maintenance Software Licensing In The Amount Of $12444.47 For Owcp.$12K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Maintenance Renewal$12K
- Federal contractTreasury · Continued Support For Graph Visualization Capabilities For A NEO4J Graph Database$24K
- Federal contractTreasury · Igf::ot::igf For Other Functions Data Analytic Services$76K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Update To Owcp Feca Data Analysis And Visualization Product$146K
- Federal contractHealth and Human S · Igf::ot::igf Eeoc Data Analytics$85K
- Federal contractLabor · To Renew Radr Annual Maintenance Agreement For A Period Of 12 Months, Specifically April 16, 2017 To April 16, 2018. Year 3 Igf::ot::igf$11K
- Federal contractSecurities and Exc · Igf::ot::igf For Other Functions$285K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf The Purpose Of This Pr Is To Renew The Annual Maintenance Agreement For Radr For Period Of 12 Months. The Period Of Performance: April 16, 2017 To April 16, 2018. (year 3)$11K
- Federal contractTreasury · Igf::ct::igf For Critical Functions - Implementation Of A Graph Visualization Application (ui) User Interface$84K
- Federal contractSecurities and Exc · Igf::ot::igf For Other Functions$941K
- Federal contractTreasury · Igf::ot::igf For Other Functions Data Analytic Services$195K
- Federal contractHousing and Urban · Igf::ot::igf Data Analyses And Program Management Consulting Services -exploration Of Hud Public Housing Program Benefits Distribution This Is A Task Order Against The Usps Oig Single Award Idiq 6HQOIG-12-B-0004. As Usps Oig Does Not Report In Fpds, This Action Cannot Be Linked In Fpds To An Idv, And Is Therefore Reported As A Stand Alone For Purposes Of Tracking.$131K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Renewal Of Owcp's Share Of The Radr License Renewal Vendor: Elder Research, Inc. Period Of Performance: April 2016 - April 2017$11K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Audit's Rard Software$11K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf The Objective Of This Task Order Is To Further Enhance Oigs Data Mining And Analytical Capability By Developing A Risk Model For The Feca Medical Provider Data And Adding The Results To The Radr Application. In Addition, Engineering Changes To The Overall Underlying Framework And Computing Environment Will Be Made To Ensure Current And Future Models, Database Structures, Data Exchanges, And Visualizations Will Operate With Common, Open Source Software And Not Be Dependent On Proprie$195K
- Federal contractSecurities and Exc · Igf::ot::igf For Other Functions - Qrads WC4 Technical Writing$671K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Owcp Energy Longshore Blacklung Database Icge $30,000.00.$19K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Technical Objectives Of This Program Are: (1) To Develop A Set Of Physics-based Modeling Tools To Predict The Initiation Of Hot Corrosion And To Address Pit And Fatigue Crack Formation In Ni-based Alloys Subjected To Corrosive Environments, (2) To Implement This Set Of Physics-based Modeling Tools Into The Darwin Probabilistic Life-prediction Code, And (3) To Demonstrate Corrosion Fatigue Crack Initiation And Growth Life Prediction For Turbine Disks Subjected To Low-cycle And Hi$750K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf The Oig- Office Of Audit Performs Information And Related Information Technology Audits Of The U.S. Department Of Labor (dol) Cyber Networks, Systems, And Related Data Information.$25K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Program Integrity Analytic Services. Pop 1 Base Year Plus 4 Option Years.$1.3M
- Federal contractSecurities and Exc · Igf::ot::igf For Other Functions, Task Order, WC-4 Knowledge Base Task 2.$625K
- Federal contractHousing and Urban · Igf::ot::igf$438K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Provide A Business Intelligence Solution (bi-solution) Covering Vast And Complex$290K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Technical Objectives Of This Program Are: (1) To Develop A Set Of Physics-based Modeling Tools To Predict The Initiation Of Hot Corrosion And To Address Pit And Fatigue Crack Formation In Ni-based Alloys Subjected To Corrosive Environments, (2) To Implement This Set Of Physics-based Modeling Tools Into The Darwin Probabilistic Life-prediction Code, And (3) To Demonstrate Corrosion Fatigue Crack Initiation And Growth Life Prediction For Turbine Disks Subjected To Low-cycle And Hi$125K
- Federal contractLabor · Igf::ot::igf Oig Will Conduct A Cpe The Week Of August 11-15, 2014 In Leesburg, Va., And Needs To Procure The Services From Various Contractors For Data Mining And Data Analytics Training.$12K
- Federal contractTreasury · Igf::ot::igf Contract Risk And Visualization Tool$730K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$750K
- Federal contractLabor · (bi-solution) Covering Vast And Complex$321K
- Federal contractDefense · Spd Project Text Mining$96K
- Federal contractTreasury · Modification To Authorize Access To Sbu$90K
- Federal contractDefense · Support Services$119K
- Federal contractDefense · Support Services$242K
- Federal contractTreasury · Case Grading Model$30K
- Federal contractDefense · Support Services$185K
- Federal contractTreasury · Modeling Consulting Services - Spss$72K
- Federal contractSocial Security Ad · Sole Source Contract For Elder Research, Inc. To Come To Ssa To Conduct 2 Day Class On "tools For Discovering Patterns In Data: A Survey Of Modern Data Mining Algorithms"$7K
- Federal contractTreasury · Validate & Revise A Proof-of-concept Mod$50K
Federal awards are summed by year (79 awards); hover a bar for the split. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
1 record has no date or no amount, so it isn’t placed on the timeline.
Federal first
196months
from ELDER RESEARCH, INC.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Jun 2007
- Treasury · $50K
- First Form D · Oct 2023
- $3M · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 66 awards
An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.
Standing in Defense · 1442 companies
Line = median- Federal contracts#103 · top 7%
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Founders and team
From SEC Form D filings- Jeffrey L. DealExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- J. Dustin HuxExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- John F. ElderExecutive Officer, Director, PromoterNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Robert J. HanExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Shree J. TaylorExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Victor Gerhard DiloretoExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
Show all 7 people
- W. Gerhard PilcherExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.
Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Defense
- Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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